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The IPL is a good barometer in India: its suspension shows us how serious this is

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The IPL is so closely intertwined with India’s politics that even cricket’s richest tournament could not continue at a time of crisis

It’s not often that two sets of people find themselves in the same situation on either side of one of the world’s most fractious borders .

When Friday dawned, amid swirling rumours of missiles wrecking neighbourhoods and falsehoods about pilots being captured, cricketers in India and Pakistan sensed that something was about to give.

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Slovakian and Serbian leaders defy EU to attend Russian military parade

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Robert Fico and Aleksandar Vučić accepted Vladimir Putin’s invitation to attend Victory Day celebrations

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Despite warnings from European Union officials, Slovakia’s Moscow-friendly prime minister, Robert Fico, shook hands with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin before becoming the only EU leader to attend Russia’s 9 May parade of military forces waging war on Ukraine.

The Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić, whose country aspires to join the 27-nation union, also accepted the Russian president’s invitation to attend the annual Victory Day celebrations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war.

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India accuses Pakistan of using up to 400 drones to attack cities and bases

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Islamabad denies launching strikes across northern India as Pakistani military says it will ‘not de-escalate’

India has accused Pakistan of launching an attack using up to 400 drones to target cities, military bases and places of worship across the north of the country on Thursday night, as the Pakistani military said it would “not de-escalate with India”.

India claimed to have intercepted hundreds of Pakistani drones, which it said came across the border into Indian-controlled Kashmir, as well as Rajasthan, Punjab and Gujarat. It said a first wave of drones came on Thursday evening and another wave hit close to dawn on Friday.

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Two Pints review – Roddy Doyle’s boozy banter is a masterclass in comedy

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 May

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The writer’s gift for gags is on full display in this adaptation starring two men offering up laddish chat along with questions of life and death in an Irish pub

While less dedicated or prolific writers were off boozing with their mates down the local, Roddy Doyle has spent almost a decade writing about it. From 2012-2019, he published three novels – Two Pints, Two More Pints , Two for the Road – in which two sixtysomething Irish men chatted over Guinness, their alcohol units far beyond those specified in the titles.

Comprising only dialogue without even character names, the books seemed to call for dramatic form and, in 2017, Doyle premiered a play titled Two Pints in a Dublin pub, the speakers now distinguished as One and Two, tended by Raymond, an almost-silent barman. During lockdown, Doyle added six online duologues, The Zoom Pints, in which the men spoke while drinking alone at home. The collected craic packs a 432-page paperback – The Complete Two Pints.

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Martin Rowson on the election of the first US pope – cartoon

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 May

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Metro Bank risks backlash as investor advisers warn over scheme that could hand CEO £60m

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 May

ISS and Glass Lewis concerned new long-term bonus could reward bosses regardless of performance

Metro Bank is at risk of a shareholder backlash after two influential shareholder advisers warned about a complex bonus scheme that could hand the bank’s chief executive a £60m windfall.

ISS and Glass Lewis, prominent proxy advisory services that suggest how shareholders should vote on company policies at annual meetings, are concerned that the new long-term bonus will be linked to the bank’s share price, which may climb regardless of how well bosses run it.

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Final phase of jury selection in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s sex-trafficking trial postponed

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Judge accepted request from Combs’s attorneys due to concerns that jurors might drop out over the weekend

The final phase of jury selection for the racketeering and sex-trafficking trial of the hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been postponed to Monday.

In a ruling on Friday morning, Judge Arun Subramanian, who is presiding over the case in New York, decided that jury selection will now wrap up on Monday morning due to concerns that jurors might drop out over the weekend if the panel was finalized on Friday as originally planned.

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Modern slavery victims opt to stay with exploiters for fear of deportation, research finds

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 May

Exclusive: Act found to be failing as hostile immigration policies deter trafficking victims from seeking help

Modern slavery victims are choosing to stay with their exploiters rather than access government support designed to protect them for fear of immigration enforcement, research has found.

The independent anti-slavery commissioner, Eleanor Lyons, said the system was “deeply broken”.

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Five people had lunch in a small Australian town. Three are dead – and one is accused of their murder

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Jury hears from sole surviving guest as well as medical staff and Erin Patterson’s children in second week of mushroom murders trial

Ian Wilkinson sat in the witness box, a crucifix within an ichthys pinned over his heart, and told the supreme court about four people he shared lunch with on 29 July 2023.

Three of those people are dead, and the other is accused of killing them.